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RE: Xterm compiled with cygnus gcc
- To: "'Arlindo da Silva'" <arlindo at niteroi dot gsfc dot nasa dot gov>
- Subject: RE: Xterm compiled with cygnus gcc
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 11:47:37 +0300
- Cc: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
Arlindo da Silva wrote:
> In the early days of b18 I tried to build xterm but it wasn't possible
since
> it didn't have pseudo tty support. Since then Sergey Okhapkin and others
have
> added many patches to cygwin.dll (including ptty support), so that xterm
might
> compile by now.
>
> However, Sergey has compiled "rxvt", a xterm look-alike that AFAIK
> only lacks the Tektronix support that xterm has. You should find
It's not possible to compile xterm with cygwin.dll now :-( Xterm does a lot
of initialisation of X libraries and then does fork(). But static data
areas of dll's (libX11.dll this case) are not copied to a child on fork -
it's a cygwin bug. So xterm even if compiles without errors, will not work
properly.
--
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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